During the last two and a half
months I have witnessed six daylight UFO sightings above Santa
Monica, including one I managed to film. This is nearly as
many as I have seen over the city since I moved here ten years
ago. Could Santa Monica be experiencing a UFO ‘wave’?

On June 28th 2006 I experienced
two different types of UFO within twenty minutes of each other
from the same street corner, and area of sky (North to North
West of Santa Monica), where the unidentified flying ‘Boomerang’
and ‘Flying Humanoid’ (UFH) were filmed (Ref. 1 & 2).

The first sighting occurred at approximately 4:45pm. I had
just left the apartment to walk into town and was about to
cross the first cross street on our block. As I stopped to
cross the street I looked up and immediately spotted ahead
of me, about 50 degrees above the horizon, a very slow moving
UFO.

With the naked eye, against
a clear blue sky, the UFO looked like a small bright white
‘boomerang’, or gently curved ‘tube’, with ‘scalloped edges’.
It very closely resembled the UFO Kris (Sherwood) filmed in
1999 from the same spot, only this time the object wasn’t
rotating (Ref. 1).

Flying on a straight course (from my right to left), heading
from the SE to the NW, the UFO flew above NW Santa Monica
at an estimated altitude of about 10,000+ feet. About the
size of a small to medium sized aircraft it moved very slowly,
producing no audible sound and leaving no contrail.

With good visibility and a
clear sky the UFO was easy to spot initially, however, as
I tried to view it through the monocular I immediately lost
sight of it. Moments later, I found it again, only to lose
it again as I tried a second time to look at it through the
‘spotter’. This time, I lost it for about ten minutes despite
the objects slow speed and brightness. During this time I
walked the length of a street, scanning the sky from different
vantage points, but I couldn’t find it.

Disappointed by what seemed
to be a very brief sighting I returned to where it began and
was about to give up searching when I sighted it again! Amazingly,
the UFO had barely moved from its original position, which
was a surprise because I had searched the same area of sky
for almost ten minutes. (Either, I was losing my eyesight
I thought or the UFO was playing ‘hide and seek’.)

With the UFO in sight again and moving very slowly I decided
to risk losing it altogether by running to our apartment to
retrieve our HI8 video camera. Before leaving I quickly estimated
the UFOs position in the sky, using a tall palm tree on the
street to compare it to, and ran for the camera. Less than
a minute later I was back outside and where I had first noticed
the UFO but I couldn’t find it. I spent several minutes searching
the sky but to no avail. Frustrated, yet hopeful I might spot
it once more, I slowly walked around the city block, viewing
the same area of sky, but I didn’t see it again.

Feeling very disappointed,
even angry on this occasion, to be ‘teased’ by the UFO, I
voiced it. Approaching the street corner where I first spotted
the UFO, I said out loud “OK, I’m going inside. If you are
going to appear you better do it NOW.” As I said this, about
to walk away from the viewing area, I looked up, for the last
time I thought, only to spot a second UFO, this time moving
faster, and flying in the opposite direction (Fig. 1-11).

It was about 5:10pm. I quickly
powered up the camera and proceeded to try to film the UFO,
beginning with a hand held shot. Flying on a straight and
horizontal course, from my left to right, heading approximately
West to East, it was perhaps 5-10,000 feet up in the air (a
few thousand feet lower than the first UFO).

Fig. 1, 2 & 3 The
Sighting Location Including a Partial Zoom
of the UFO Flying Behind and Between Two Foreground Palm Trees35mm Stills from TV/Hi8 Video Copyright 2006
Ed Sherwood/Millennium Research

(Note: In Fig. 1-11 the UFO
is moving from the left to the right of the image.)

I estimated the size of the
UFO to be similar to a small to medium sized aircraft a few
miles distant. With the naked eye, and through the camera,
I quickly realized what first looked like one object might
actually be two or even three self-similar UFOs flying together
in a very close yet fluid configuration (Fig. 4 & 5).

Flying about 35 degrees above
the horizon, they were also tightly clustered below what looked
like a small ‘beacon’, or ‘antenna’ light (or guiding ‘light
ball’), that came on occasionally (Fig. 6, 8 & 11).

Fig. 6 & 7 The
UFO/s at Half Zoom with the ‘Antenna Light’ On and Off 35mm Still from TV/Hi8 Video Copyright 2006
Ed Sherwood/Millennium Research

I filmed the UFO for approximately 15 seconds initially, affirming
its unusual appearance, before trying to attach a monopod
to the camera for a steadier shot. However, my first attempt
failed, and since the object was not slowing down, I resumed
filming, only to find it impossible to achieve a steady shot
beyond half zoom. With one eye on the UFOs position and one
on the HI8 camera I eventually attached the monopod and attempted
a slow zoom on the object as it emerged from behind a palm
tree trunk (Fig. 9, 10 & 11).

Fig. 8 The UFO/s at
Two Thirds Zoom 35mm Still from TV/Hi8 Video Copyright 2006
Ed Sherwood/Millennium Research

This time I was able to film
the UFO for approximately 25 seconds before losing it from
view, including a two-thirds zoom on the object, as it flew
over the city and out of sight into smog and distant haze.

Fig. 9, 10 & 11 The
UFO/s at Partial and Two Thirds Zoom35mm Still from TV/HI8 Video Copyright 2006
Ed Sherwood/Millennium Research

In total, it had been a two
to three minute sighting ending at approximately 5:13pm, and
I had recorded just under a minute.

Further Observations &
Questions

Since my teens, in any given
direction and landscape, I have called a specific area of
sky where UFOs are more likely to appear a ‘UFO window’. On
June 28th 2006, a ‘window’ above Santa Monica was wide open
for a while and two different UFOs appeared, the first moving
towards it and the second away from it.

While the second UFO sighting
was different from the first, both were observed in the same
area of sky as the ‘Boomerang’ shaped UFO filmed flying above
Santa Monica in 1999 (Ref. 1).

There have been at least five
UFO sightings above Santa Monica in the last two weeks. All
have been sighted in the same area of sky. All appeared to
be white and moved relatively slowly, especially the first
two, which seemed to be moving at walking speed. All were
silent sightings.

The June 28th 2006 sighting
occurred exactly nine days after my previous UFO sighting
(on the 19th) which synchronously occurred on the same day
that Phyllis Schlemmer e-mailed us after many months of no
direct contact (Ref. 3).

Was the second UFO sighting
an interactive encounter initiated by the human observer (myself)?
Had the UFO appeared because of my voicing great disappointment
in not being able to film the first UFO, or was I just in
the right place again at the right time to observe another
UFO flying by unaware of my presence as an observer?

The flight characteristics
of the second UFO were immediately noticeable and noteworthy.
For example, the two main ‘lights’ or illuminated ‘objects’
(one slightly higher, smaller and behind the other) altered
their position as they moved across the sky. While the UFO/s
moved from left to right on a straight course, during the
first clip I shot the smaller of the two side-by-side objects
was to right of the larger one (Fig. 8). Seconds later, during
the second clip (after attaching the monopod and attempting
to film the UFO/s moving further away), the smaller of the
two objects is to the left of the larger one (Fig. 11).

As is often the case, it was
easier to identify what the UFO above Santa Monica was not
than to say what it was exactly. However, what it was not
included an aircraft, helicopter, blimp, balloon, or any other
type of manmade object I could think of. Was it a top secret
military device and test? I don’t know, but I suspect it wasn’t
on this occasion.